3 ducks in 3 games: Abhishek Sharma's T20 WC woes continue in Ahmedabad

Abhishek Sharma has been dismissed for a duck yet again during India's T20 World Cup 2026 group stage match against Netherlands at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad tonight. Third consecutive duck for the opener in his debut T20 World Cup campaign.  Dutch spinner Ayan Dutt cleaned up his off stump on the night in the first over itself that saw him continue his poor run of form for the Men in Blue.   

Most ducks by an opener in a T20I calendar year
Rank	Player	Team	Year	Ducks (T20Is)
1	Saim Ayub	Pakistan	2025	6
2	Chaloemwong Chatphaisan	Thailand	2024	5
2	Kushal Bhurtel	Nepal	2024	5
2	Dharma Kesuma	Indonesia	2025	5
2	Parvez Hossain Emon	Bangladesh	2025	5
2	Abhishek Sharma	India	2026	5

    With this dismissal, he is now become the 2nd Indian batter to register 3 ducks in 2 innings in a T20 World Cup campaign alongside Ashish Nehra. Before Abhishek there was only one player, Uganda's Roger Mukasa who had three ducks in his first three T20 World Cup batting opportunities.   Abhishek now has the joint-most ducks, a record he wouldn't want his T20I career to be remembered for sure. Abhishek was dismissed for a golden duck against USA and then for a 4-ball duck against Pakistan.   With fans expecting that the lethal opener would return to his best in Ahmedabad, he unfortunately got cuaght under pressure after a few dots and was cleaned up at the start of the India innings.  His opening parnter Ishan Kishan too couldn't get going as he too was sent back for just 18 runs on the night. It was skipper Suryakumar Yadav and Shivam Dube that took onus and started putting runs on the board after Tilak Varma was caught brilliantly by Van de Beek at 31.